The Turbulent Teens: Understanding, Helping, Surviving
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This book is about understanding, helping, and coping with teenagers through a difficult time of life. It is a book for anyone living or working with teens. What is adolescence all about? What do you do about drugs? How do you punish a teenager? How do you talk sense into their heads? How do teenagers perceive themselves? Each other? The world? Why are they so often angry and surly? Why are they so moody? How can you help teenagers grow up to be mature, happy, “together” people?
The basic idea of this book is that the more you know about the process of adolescent development, the more helpful you can be. It provides a general picture of the adolescent phase as well as specific how-to-do-it suggestions and anecdotes. It covers topics such as:
• The identity crisis of the teen years
• Sex
• Drugs
• Handling the anger of adolescence
• Setting an example of dignity and reason
• Defining tolerance limits
• Exerting control
• Coping with the teen's need for immediacy . . . and more
The Turbulent Teens: Understanding, Helping, Surviving,James E. Gardner,Jalmar Press,0913091014,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General,Parent and child,Parenting,Youth
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